Canagan Dental Dry Puppies/Adult review

This recipe lands in our Excellent band, one step up from the Good result the typical adult dry food records. Behind that reading: well over half the recipe is declared animal ingredients, and carbohydrate converts to an estimated 33.0% of dry matter against a typical 46.2%. The functional extras carry printed doses instead of marketing adjectives.

Ingredients, as declared: Freshly Prepared Turkey (33%), Dried Chicken (18.7%), Sweet Potato, Potato, Peas, Chicken Fat (4%), Alfalfa, Dried Egg (3.1%), Pea Protein, Chicken Gravy (1.6%), Salmon Oil (1.2%), Minerals, ProDen PlaqueOff® (2,500 mg/kg), Glucosamine (850 mg/kg), MSM (850 mg/kg), Apple, Carrot, Fructooligosaccharides, Spinach, Psyllium, Chondroitin Sulphate (620mg/kg), Peppermint, Camomile, Marigold, Cranberry, Parsley, Aniseed & Fenugreek.

Freshly prepared turkey opens the list at 33%, and because fresh meat sheds its water during cooking, the dried chicken at 18.7% ends up supplying much of the finished protein. Between them the analysis reaches 33% protein as fed, or 35.9% of dry matter, with fat at 18% giving a dense 394 kcal per 100g.

Sweet potato, potato and peas do the binding with no grain anywhere in sight. Pea protein further down the list nudges the protein figure along. It is a plant top-up and not more meat, and here it does a supporting job only.

The headline act is ProDen PlaqueOff at 2,500 mg/kg, a supplement milled from a North Atlantic seaweed. Fed daily, it is absorbed and reaches the saliva, where it is intended to soften the mineral bonds that let tartar build on the tooth surface. It is one of the few dental additives you will see with a printed inclusion rate, which is exactly how a functional claim should be handled.

Joint support is dosed too: glucosamine and MSM at 850 mg/kg each and chondroitin sulphate at 620 mg/kg. Dried egg at 3.1% adds a complete protein, and alfalfa brings a little plant mineral content.

The tail of peppermint, camomile, marigold, cranberry, parsley, aniseed and fenugreek is seasoning at trace level. The peppermint and parsley suit the breath brief, but the recipe stands on its meat and its seaweed, not its herbs.

£7.67 a kilo, available in 2kg, 6kg and 12kg bags.

Feeding a 15kg adult in moderate condition takes roughly 213 grams a day, about £1.64, if you assume the standard maintenance estimate of 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75). For that same dog the label's guide gives 150 grams. Start there and adjust to suit yours.